Presentation during the Oracle OpenWorld 2012 Showcase on Middleware. JD Edwards implementation of Environmental Accounting and Reporting at NCTD>

1. Showcase: Middleware
Oracle Environmental Accounting and Reporting
through JD Edwards
North County Transit District San Diego, CA
Angela Miller, former Chief Technology Officer/Chief Sustainability Officer
founder, ecology.IT

2. The North County Transit District:
Public Transit for San Diego County
• North San Diego County, operating bus, commuter rail, light rail, and
paratransit systems
• 12.5 million riders; 107 million annual Passenger Miles Traveled
• 9 million annual Vehicle Miles over 550k annual Revenue Vehicle Hours

3. Public Transit – The Green Transit Option
comparison of emissions for transportation options

4. The North County Transit District:
Building Sustainable Public Transit
• Sustainability and public transit have a natural synergy –
economic, social, and environmental issues all inherently relevant
business model
• Plan focused first on cost reductions, then capitalizing on
opportunity, then building the cleanest, most scalable transportation.
Sustainability took on a much different meaning under dire financial
circumstances

5. History of the NCTD Sustainability Program
building one step at a time

6. Investments in Renewable Power
five different installation types and locations

7. Measuring and Benchmarking:
The Climate Registry, APTA, and NTD
• Wanted to measure using Industry-Standard Methodologies
• Became a member of The Climate Registry and filed first baseline year;
Became a signatory to the APTA Sustainability Commitment and filed
first annual report; also federally-mandated National KPIs
• In order to complete these goals, NCTD contracted with external
partners like Trust Element and Cathy Moran – significant consulting

8. Our Oracle JD Edwards Footprint
• We historically were a heavy maintenance operation. Owned JD
Edwards for Financials, Purchasing, and Inventory Management
• In 2011 upgraded successfully to 9.0 blue stack
• In 2011 replaced our 22-year old Prime system with HR/Payroll
• Added complexity: outsourced operations and maintenance

9. Implementing Accounting and Reporting:
Leveraging Existing Tools and Process
• Manual effort too expensive and not repeatable; issues with audit
• NCTD wanted to build on their 10-year JD Edwards Investment
• Needed a solution that included extensive data transformation
• Oracle Solution Seemed to fit the need

10. Environmental Reporting and Accounting
System Design

11. Environmental Reporting and Accounting
collect environmental information right in standard AP processes

12. Power for EA&R Comes in the Middleware
ability to integrate data from non-ERP systems, suppliers
 Integrating all liquid dispensing data – diesel, gas, CNG, oil, lubricants
 Integrating all power data through downloads from utilities – over 175
meters, and now smart meters
 Integrating power data from multiple solar installations in 15-minute
intervals
 Integrating mileage data from two different systems, including a
CAD/AVL system that gives location data for every vehicle every
minute of every day

13. Planned Next Phase
Building more middleware-dependent data feeds
 Operational supplier environmental data
 Integration with automated data from diesel generators
 Creating the KPI dashboard for environmental data (the one that
comes with EA&R is facility-based, not mode-based)

14. Environmental Accounting and Reporting:
Results
• OBIEE allowed for easier transformation of data
• Automation of data collection allowed for more frequent and cost
effective analytics; payback period for NCTD < 2 years

15. For further information:
Fred Knapp, Program Manager
North County Transit District
fknapp@nctd.org
Angela Miller, founder
ecology.IT
angela.miller@ecologyit.net t: @ecologyit www.ecologyit.net